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Tag: William K. Vanderbilt

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  Mar 16 2022

  Greg O’s Garage; HBO’s The Gilded Age, Long Island and the Vanderbilts Part 2

  HBO's excellent new series 'The Gilded Age' has many connections, real and fictional, to NYC, Long Island and the Vanderbilt family.

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  Jan 21 2022

  Film of the Week: PBS American Experience: The Gilded Age: Consuelo’s Wedding

  This 4-minute segment of the 2018 PBS documentary The Gilded Age highlighted Consuelo's wedding to the Duke of Marlborough, one of the most eligible bachelors among the British aristocracy.

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  Feb 23 2021

  Frederick Ogden Beach-“bosom friends” with Willie K’s father

  As a follow-up to last week's Mystery Foto, I recalled the above photo of F.O. Beach.

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  Nov 19 2018

  Mystery Foto #46 Solved: Mid-Week Pictorial Announces the Death of William K. Vanderbilt in 1920

  Steve Lucas challenged you to identify this illustration published in Mid-Week Pictorial, a magazine once owned by The New York Times.

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  Dec 29 2015

  Willie K. and Virginia Vanderbilt’s Mansion at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

  In 1905 William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his wife Virginia (Birdie) decided to build a Manhattan mansion on property given to them by Willie K.'s parents. Here is the story behind Willie K. and Birdie's 660 Fifth Avenue mansion.

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  Dec 28 2015

  Mystery Foto #52 Solved: Willie K. and the Vanderbilt Family Cruising on the Nile River in 1888

  Our final Mystery Foto of 2015 was a historic image of the Vanderbilt Family. Photo courtesy of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.

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  Feb 21 2014

  Video of the Week: “The Vanderbilts - An American Dynasty”

  This week's video of the week is a 48-minute Biography special on our beloved Vanderbilt Family.